BREAKING NEWS: APC Mobilises Governors, Stakeholders For FCT Elections Ahead of time
ABUJA – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mobilised its governors and other stakeholders ahead of the February 21 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election.
Out of the 138 members of the council led by the Kwara state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, about 25 are incumbent governors.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the National Campaign Council for the 2026 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council Election on Friday in Abuja, the National Chairman of the party, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, revealed the strategy put in place by the party to win the council election.
He said: “We have governors from all these regions, and all of them have been reaching out to the people in their own way, going to the communities, and they have dispatched leadership within those groups and tribes.
So, we are mobilizing more than any other political party in Nigeria. We are confident we will win the election.”
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Campaign Council, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, said that gone are the days when APC used to lose election in FCT.
Appealing to Igbos brothers and sisters for support, Kalu said, “my Igbo people that I love and who loves me will not allow me to be ashamed knowing fully well that I’m at the helm of affairs to make sure that the bulk vote of the Igbo communities in Abuja that we harvest them for the greatest party within the black race that is called the APC.”
According to him, the infrastructural development by the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike is enough to sway votes in favour of the APC.
Addressing newsmen, Kalu said: “I am an Igbo man and also a Nigerian and I’m part of this government. I’m one of the faces of Igbos in leadership. So, no longer can Igbos say we are not part of the administration. This did not happen in the previous administration. If you look at the succession leadership of the country for eight years, there was no Igbo person there.
“Now they see me every day, participate in the governance of this country. And I know that is a big message to my people, that they are not alienated, that they are not marginalised out of the current government. That is a campaign tool already for this administration.
“But suffice that to say that this administration has made a huge impact in the FCT. Under the government of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there is a great difference from what it used to be and what it is at the moment. And I want to also thank the Minister, Wike, who has done tremendously well in not just impacting the urban areas of FCT but making governance to be felt even at the grassroots.
“These are our campaign tools. That is what we are taking to the market. We are taking beyond posters. We are taking beyond radio jingles. We are taking beyond campaign slogans into the FCT. We are saying the fact speaks for itself. You can feel our development. You can touch and experience what we have brought as dividends of democracy. So there’s going to be less job for us to do.Yes, we struggled in the time past because there were no visible evidence of the impact of the government within the FCT. But no reasonable person can say the same thing currently.
“So, we are here to convince our people that the government that has done this for the people of the FCT and the residents that they are charged to do more if given the opportunity to provide leadership in the six area councils of this FCT and in the 68 council membership of the FCT, we are ready.
“I am the secretary of this campaign council and I can assure you that we will bring the energy of the young minds, the innovative mindedness of the young people to push the agenda to the grassroots.
“We will be on the streets.We will be in every household. We will go door to door, business to business to sell the message of APC.
“It will no longer be mentioned that APC lost election in Abuja.That was in the time past. We are about to rewrite the history.
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